Guest Speaker: Beate Ritz, MD, PhD

Title: Parkinson’s Disease and the Neural Exposome

Date: January 16, 2025

Dr. Beate Ritz is a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health with co-appointments in Environmental Health Sciences and Neurology at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. She has co-directed the NIEHS-funded Center for Gene-Environment (GxE) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) at UCLA integrating research across epidemiology, neuroscience, genetics, and clinical medicine. Her lab has focused on occupational and common environmental toxicants that play a role in neurodegeneration and used a range of omics tools to discover biomarkers for environmental risk factors and disease responses.